Federal ID: 91-6001537
ISSN: 0022-1090 (Print) | 1756-6916 (Online)
Does Main Street Benefit from What Benefits Wall Street?
Sean J. Flynn, Jr. and Andra Ghent ♦ Yes. We show that aggregate stock returns predict aggregate U.S. employment, despite the industrial composition of publicly traded firms differing markedly from that of all firms, and the representativeness of public firms…